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 Tuesday November 12, 2002 21:46 by Antifa (x) Recklinghausen re at antifa dot net
 On December 12th/13th 2002 the EU summit in Copenhagen will take place. There are sufficient reasons to protest, for example against the racism of Fortress Europe and the European surveillance delusion. In addition however also the ethnophil/"voelkisch" EU foreign policy should get attacked. Under German leadership, the European union has pushed forward the supression of the "multi-ethnic-state" Yugoslavia in favour of "voelkisch", nationalist gangs (UCK) and states (Croatia, Slovenia). Furthermore the EU supports -morally and financially- the islamic and Arab fight for national identity under despots like Khomeini, Hussein and Arafat. The European Union is the largest financier (over 4 billion euro since 1993) of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA). That wouldn`t be so bad if the money were used to built up an functioning garbage disposal for Gaza or an non-anti-Semitic and non-islamistic education system. But it is no secret that the use of the EU money is not controlled. The money partially disappears on the private bank accounts of the corrupt Arafat-clique, but worse is the financing of weapons and explosives as well as the generous support for the bereaved families of suicide bombers (cf. for example the German newspaper "Die Zeit", 24/2002). The state of Israel was founded in 1948 as a reaction to anti-Semitic persecution. As long as there is anti-Semitism, Jews can defend themselves against anti-Semitism effectively only in a state with a Jewish population majority - a conclusion from centuries of pogroms and especially from the mass extermination comitted by the Germans. The UN dividing plan, which intended an Arab and a Jewish state in the British mandated territory, was rejected by the Arabs; the foundation of Israel was answered with war. Israels negotiation offers were regularly rejected by the Arab states. For these states (with the exceptions of Egypt and Jordan after the peace treaties 1978/1994), it makes no difference what Israel's policy concretely looks like or how small Israel is; it is the declared goal of the major part of the Arab world to "drive the Jews into the sea". Israel is a place of refuge for victims of anti-Semitic persecution all over the word. Antizionism wants to take the Jews the possibility of military self-defence, relinquishes them there with to their enemies an is thus nothing else but anti-Semitism. After Auschwitz, anti-Semitism hardly occurs -at least in the more established social stratums of the western world- openly, but usually as antizionism and criticism of hallucinated "influential Jewish circles". At the same time, however, Europe sees the largest wave of anti-Semitic actions since 1945 in attacks on synagogues (Dusseldorf, Paris, ...) and anti-Israeli/anti-Jewish demostrations (Berlin, Rome, ...). Until their expulsion in the 20th century, Jews had lived in islamic countries for centuries - as second class citizens indeed, but free of similar bloody persecution like in Europe. But self-confident and for sovereignty striving Jews did not fit in the concept of most Arabic neighbours, and so the hate for the Jews grew stronger with the Zionist settlement in what is today Israel. Climax of this was the Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Hussaini, who collaborated unconcealed with the German national socialists, whose anti-Semitic projections he successfully made common in the Arabic world, and which was not limited to financial support for the Arabic national movements and the composition of muslim SS-divisions: in 1943 the Mufti called on the governments of Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Italy to withdraw their permission for Jewish emigration and to send their Jews to Poland, "where they are under active control" (taken from Hussainis memoirs "Falastin", Beirut 1970, translated from German). Books like the anti-Semitic fake "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" with more translations into Arabic than into any other language and Hitler's "Mein Kampf" are almost undisputed best-sellers in the Islamic world; state-owned newspapers and tv channels surpass each other in anti-Semitic propaganda: "...I would like to point out that the spilling of human blood by Jews for the purpose of preparation of pastry for their holidays is a fact that can be proved historically and legally throughout the whole history. This namely was one of the main reasons for the persecution and the banishment of the Jews in Europe and Asia." ("Al Riyadh", influental Saudi-Arabian newspaper, March 10th, 2002, translated from German) Opposition activists are persecuted as "zionist agents"; the delusion of the "Jewish principle" which is responsible for all the "evil things" in the world was successfully taken over from German national socialism. Islamism does not fight for a better life or satisfaction of needs but has declared war to the positive aspects of the modern world. Everything that does not submit to islamistic virtue terror and community delusion - sexuality that does not serve propagation and criticism of god-given circumstances - are persecuted remorselessly. Anti-Semitism and the hate for everything unislamic keeps the people together. Poverty and stupidity, village idylls and medieval social structures are glorified and prescribed as a cure for liberalism, decadence and incredulity which are made out especially in Israel and the US. In capitalist societies luxury, individuality and personal fortune as a basic condition for a liberated society are by the enlightement at least imaginable. This unfulfilled bourgeois promise of fortune has to be defended against Islamic fascism - although it is of course only the other side of capitalism, although barbarism represents only the other side of the enlightement and although islamistic terrorism in large parts has been built up also by the western states through money and ideology. According to the concept "land for peace" - which is supported by a majority of the Israeli society - the Israeli Prime Minister Barak offered the Palestinians an state in Westbank and Gaza with the Eastern part of Jerusalem as capital in 2000. Arafat rejected the offer e.g. because no "right of return" for Arabs who fled in 1948 was intended. But such a right of return, which includes even the offspring of the former refugees, would mean the end of Israel as a Jewish state and a place of refuge. There were no talks about a right of return for the Jews who fled in 1948 from the Arabic states. It became clear that there was neither willingness to negotiate nor anyone serious to speak to on the Palestinian side. Everytime when Israel attacks EU-financed terrorist infrastructure such as Arafats office or anti-Semitic propaganda machinery like the PNA's television broadcasting station, the EU pays the reconstruction and is bold enough to demand compensation from Israel. We do not contest that there were inhuman actions by Israeli soldiers. But in the Israeli society the army's actions are - different to all neighboring countries - discussed critically and conclusions are drawn from not justifiable actions. Interesting is also that the Falangists' attack on the "refugee camps" Sabra and Shatila in Lebanon in 1982 which was not prevented by Sharon is discussed again and again, while nobody talks about Jordan's ("Black September" 1970) and Syria's massacres against thousands of Palestinians; and that the occupation of the Westbank by Jordan and of Gaza by Egypt until 1967 was of no interest for those who today attack Israel for that - Israel's enemies don't seem to be interested in the Palestinians' well-being. Anti-imperialism explains the world as fight of concrete, rooted peoples against abstrakt powers. The fact that these concrete peoples regularly turn out to be authoritarian force-collectives should make one think. The EU poses with pleasure as fighter for the people's rights against the US and Israel who stand alone with their military actions against the world wide intifada. A radical left must not demand any more support of the anti-Israeli war at EU summits, but has to attack the EU also for its partisanship for Israel's enemies. We are aware that Israel is a capitalist state, too. But if anticapitalist protest opposes against this area of protection for victims of anti-Semitic persecution and against the only democratic state in the Middle East, in which neither self-comfident women nor homosexuals are persecuted, and if anticapitalist protest declares solidarity with Israel's enemies, in consequence this protest calls for nothing else than global fascism. Fight Fortress Europe - Solidarity with Israel ! November 2002
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10Who are these jokers?
these people are a perfect example of zionazis.
they believe in supporting the use of nazi style tactics against palestinians.
it is also a repost. pehaps the powers that be will remove it?
Talking to a german friend of mine the other day, I was telling him about this post, and he was saying that in germany if you are an anti-facist, then you kinda have an obligation to be pro-israel too. Its pretty sad, but I do think that their heart is in the right place, albeit a pigs heart. But it don't really make much sense does it, anti-nazi but pro-Israel? But they did say it is a 'new' antifacism, so thats ok, innit?
That's right, leftists and anarchists alike in Germany, even IMCers, are cheerleading for Fascist Israel. And they have the guts to call it "anti-fascism".
Apparently, the Jewish people has some kind of divine right to take "revenge" for WW2, even if that means millions of muslims have to die.
You are the nazis my friends, The Jews live in an intelligent and democratic society, as opposed to the Palestinians hatred of Westernised society, In moslem and Palestinian societies women are abused, gays are abused, not to mention no freedom of speech, or equality by law. Israel is and will always be, the reminder of love.
the EU aid to the Palestinian authority has been fully accounted for.
The EU is presently sueing the Israeli state for desctruction of schools, hospitals and the airstrip all of which were paid for by € taxpayers and rendered inoperative by Israeli military "scorched earth" tactics.
Tactics first developed by Israel in Lebanon during the Irish peace keeping mission.
Maybe you should get your facts straight, perhaps you receive your facts from the same source explaining that the Sep 11 bombing was a Jewish plot.
The EU halted funds to the Palestinians precisely because of this, until they could account for the exact target of their funds.
The European Union, for instance, forbids fundraising only for the "military wing" of Hamas - Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades - even though funds raised by other branches of Hamas for purportedly humanitarian purposes are known to be used for terrorist attacks. The European Union does not forbid the Iran-backed terrorist organization Hezbollah from fundraising at all. (The policy divide is even greater in the Middle East, where almost no country characterizes Hamas or Hezbollah as terrorist organizations. Many allow, and even encourage, those terrorist organizations to fundraise on their soil.)
And finally, Europe's own domestic institutional capacities are often found wanting. The annual number of suspicious activity reports (SARs) submitted by financial institutions in many European countries has long been unusually low. As the recent report of the UN group monitoring global sanctions against members of al-Qaeda and the Taliban noted, EU efforts are hampered by lax border controls in many European countries, particularly those in the Schengen Area group - 13 of the 15 EU member countries that abolished border controls among themselves - and the "stringent evidentiary standards" required by certain European legal systems to block assets.
And finally, as Brown University's Watson Institute documented in its research on targeted financial sanctions several years ago, while the US Treasury's Office of Foreign Asset Controls (OFAC) had more than 100 staff working full time on implementation of financial sanctions (and was still understaffed), the Bank of England had a staff of about seven, the French Ministry of Finance had two people working part-time, the German Bundesbank had one, and the European Commission in Brussels had only one person and a half-time administrative assistant.
The left in germany is very divided over middle-east politics. At a demo in Berlin last january i saw members of different anti-fascist (antifa) groups carrying either palestinian flags or israeli ones- it seemed at times that a fight might start out. This particular group (that posted here) represent only a certain section of the german left.
As some one who is coming from Germany and who is currently living in Ireland I would like to add a few points on this debate. My fellow German comrades represent a certain section of the German left which calls itself "Anti-Germans" and which is unconditional in favour of more or less everything what the Israelian state is doing. Their knowledge of the Middle East is usually very limited and they have a very weird theoretical framework, e.g. occasionally they sound pretty familiar to Samuel Huntington thesis of the Clash of Civilisation or certain apologists of Capitalist modernisation, not taking into account that this process has always been a dialectical one of inclusion and exclusion. I don't have to mention that this is a very German debate. It has very much to do with projection. While in the past certain sections of the German left have portrayed Israel as being fascist, today they are pretending that the Palestine movement is fascist. Indeed one of their most controversial representant has talked about the "Fuehrerbunker in Ramallah".
Once the Israelian psychoanalyst Zvi Rex said that the Germans would never forgive the Jewish Auschwitz. If you like you could say that this section of the German left would never forgive the Palastinens Auschwitz. It is equally wrong to either label Israel a fascist state or to call the Palestine movement as being fascist, both is at the end of the day a relativisation of the Holocaust.
It has to be said that my fellow German comrades have some valid points which are in my opinion too often neglected or ignored in the debate in Ireland, for instance the fact that progressive elements in the Palestine movement are very much marginalised at the moments and that groups like Hamas have a kind of a hegemony in that movement. It has to be said that evey left group which is not disassociating itself from groups of Hamas not only because of their "conduct of war" (i.e every Jewish person is a target) but also because of their political objectives, is making a mockery of itself. Just keep in mind what has happened to the leftwing groups in Iran after the revolution, they were butchered in their thousands by their former "comrades". Also it is right to put the finger on the growing antisemitism in the Palestine movement but once again it is wrong to equate this antisemitism, which, to a certain extent, has to be put into the context of the conflict in the Middle East (which doesn't make it better) with the exterminational antisemitism of the Nazis.
,which has its roots in the shift from religious antisemitism to biological founded antisemitism at the end of the 19th century.